Below is an email that I sent to a group called Voices of Young Science, who wish to discredit and essentially destroy the art of homeopathy. I strongly encourage others to send an email to those responsible for this misinformation. Also, here is the link to the BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8211925.stm

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Dear Sense About Science / Voices of Young Science,

After receiving a letter from a trusted source, I see that your organization is alarmed by the growth of homeopathy. From the articles I’ve read, your group sees this methodology as nothing more than placebo and should be extinguished.

I can understand that the tools by how things are currently measured can’t always detect the energetic principles that is the basis of how homeopathy works, but in the evolution of science, I find that many ‘laws’ are disproved when better tools of variable detection are available… rendering previous beliefs, theories and laws obsolete.

Your group is in danger of becoming discredited if it continues to pursue this path in attacking homeopathy as a pseudoscience. The undetectable variables that are not traceable with conventional tools do not conclusively mean that the energy of the remedies are ineffective.

If the goal of medicine is to create a more healthy patient, I challenge medicine to answer the larger question of the deleterious effects of pharmaceutical production which poisons our clean air and water. How does conventional medicine justify and rationalize the perpetual side effects of its remedies while destroying the habitat of the patients it is trying to help?

I do understand that homeopathic remedies resemble placebo to those who don’t wish to genuinely explore the methodology of the practice, but as a patient of classical homeopathy now for eight years, I can say that I am healthier and happier now in my forties than I can remember even back to my early twenties (even though I was quite skeptical at the onset of my homeopathic treatment). I haven’t needed (nor desired) to take a pharmaceutical remedy since I’ve started the homeopathic path and feel more free than the vast majority who are struggling to counteract all the side effects of traditional medicine. Homeopathy treats the psyche as well as the symptoms. I have benefited immensely in the treatment of my whole person.

If you are simply agents of the pharmaceutical industry, then you probably will simply delete this email as poppycock. But if you are truly scientists who search for objective knowledge in all things, then I implore you to try to research the science of homeopathy. It is a medicinal art as valid as the art of conventional medicine and worthy of further research in what it can contribute to the overall evolution of medicine.

Sincerely,

Keith Gonzalez
Coordinator of IT for Natural Sciences
College of Arts and Sciences IT
University of Oregon
Email: keithg@uoregon.edu

            While the national and world leaders try to tell us that they are going to stimulate the economy with whatever method they have at their hands, it’s hard for me to believe that any one or group of humans can do anything to change the natural course of this beaten and battered financial system. It doesn’t matter if it is the economy, the crime levels or the amount of babies being born. Everything that lives inhales and exhales until its final transition to cessation. That goes for amoebas all the way up to these whopping social systems created and maintained by us. As far as our leaders are concerned, even though I voted for Barack Obama, I have little faith in the fact that he can use conventional people in high status positions to show us the way to prosperity. These people gained their status and power from playing the rules of the game that no longer apply. How can the group of them dig us out of this hole? No, the only thing that they can do is keep bleeding our tax money into their pockets and the pockets of the larger corporations. They are putting band-aids on a hemorrhaging patient. And when an amputation is called for to save the patient, do they dare cut off their own legs to save the rest of us? Likely not.

             Now, what good would my rant be without a suggestion? I do believe them when they say that this is the biggest threat to our lifestyles since The Great Depression. One thing that I noticed between now and then is this: Back then the industrial revolution was just cranking up. Factories were being built to produce stuff in ways that could reach the households of every middle class family. Commonly gotten electricity and phones were only a couple of decades old, and cars were just starting to be produced to have one parked in every driveway. It was a massive shift in the way humans lived. It was the beginning of stuff and luxurious living for the common person. Then someone said “BOO!” and the stock market crashed. Yes, they improved the reliability of that system as it stumbled many times with boom and crashes until today. Don’t forget that the world back then was enthralled in a geopolitical chess game of regional and world wars.

             Today, we are going through something very similar with the advent of the Information-Communication age. Few of us can imagine what the world would be like without computers, let alone the ‘miracle’ of Google. The effectiveness of my skills at my job wouldn’t be the same without the Internet. So, yes, we are shifting again in consciousness and how we live. And yes, we are all going to suffer (some much greater than others) while our leaders try to figure out what the heck is going on. Oh, and by the way, the world is in the throes of geopolitically fueled regional wars over resources. Hmm, haven’t we been here before?

             The good news and the bad news: In a few years we are going to enter a new era of interacting and living with each other. Words like ‘nano’ and ‘google’ are going to replace ‘plastic’ and ‘yellow pages.’ But what I am worried about the most is the implementation of all these new technologies. We’ve never been so close to the edge of bringing forth such beautiful new systems to improve the lifestyle of so many, yet be so close to the edge of darkness from these same inventions. Moral responsibility is so needed as we go through this transition. I keep my fingers crossed.

             My suggestion to any world leaders out there: Economy is about living things in action. It doesn’t matter if it is rebuilding from the destruction of war, or rebuilding from the destruction of our actions of the Industrial Age. The economy is good as long as people have work with a purpose. I can think of nothing more important than repairing the habitat damage so we can continue to grow. That means also feeding and teaching third world countries how to do things right, but not until we are on that path ourselves. Information is the new money, and systems have to be implemented that create a new relationship between people’s information and manufacturing. A currency that is directly tied to the health of the planet is also the critical step to real change. Yes, I can go into fine detail, but is anyone listening? I hope the world leaders get a hint of writings like this and others that are calling for real change. That is what I voted for, after all. I say, let the economy die. From the ashes of its cremation can rise the Phoenix to bring a new light and breath for a better and more sustainable future.

-keitan

PS, Happy Solstice! Welcome the longer days with thoughts of hope.